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To support socially isolated older people through our Shared Reading groups, and training and empowering them to support each other. We will also pilot new community-led ways of working. >60% of beneficiaries will be older people, and >60% will be women.
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Situation
The number of vulnerable people we can support across the UK is limited by the fact that most of our groups are delivered by our staff members. This is expensive, and places limits on how far we can expand our work, and reflects that most of our work has
Solution
The Reader will pilot a new way of working, training & supporting volunteers to deliver shared reading in their own communities, allowing us to reach many more people, sustainably. We will test our new way of working in selected communities acros the UK,